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Luke for Everyone - The Healing of the Paralytic Lowered Through the Roof
Luke for Everyone - The Healing of the Paralytic Lowered Through the Roof
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Healing of the Paralytic Lowered Through the Roof Luke 5.17-26 The day I am writing this, protesters are gathering in trucks and vans, getting ready to drive slowly down the long main road to the capital. Their aim is to cause as much disruption as possible to normal traffic,…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Faith that Moves Mountains
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - Faith that Moves Mountains
by SPCK - N T Wright
Faith that Moves Mountains Matthew 17.14-21 She was a strong swimmer, and by now she was ready to tackle the challenge of swimming in the sea. A bathing pool is all right to begin with, but it’s a bit tame compared with ocean rollers. For a while it was simply exhilarating. She a…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Felix Calms (and Slows) Things Down
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Felix Calms (and Slows) Things Down
by SPCK - N T Wright
Felix Calms (and Slows) Things DownActs 24.22-27 A friend of mine preached a sermon, as my guest, on radiators and drains. Some people, he said, are radiators, and other people are drains. Some people, that is, naturally give energy and warmth to others. People like having them…
Mark for Everyone - Clean and Unclean
Mark for Everyone - Clean and Unclean
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 7.14–23 ..Back to jokes again. Have you ever told a joke and seen a row of blank stares? They didn’t get it? What can you do? Explain it? Surely that’ll take all the fun out of it. Yes, but a parable isn’t a joke. This one in particular was no laughing matt…
Mark for Everyone - Herod and John the Baptist
Mark for Everyone - Herod and John the Baptist
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 6.17–29 Herod and John the Baptist... ...What sells newspapers? Three things, and if they’re combined, so much the better. Royalty: almost any story about a member of a royal family will sell, not only in Britain or Norway or wherever it began, but around t…
Mark for Everyone - The Speculations of Herod
Mark for Everyone - The Speculations of Herod
by SPCK - N T Wright
Mark For Everyone MARK 6.14–16The Speculations of Herod... ...Private life is a modern invention. Until quite recently, most people lived in small communities where everyone knew every- one else’s business. Until a few hundred years ago, everybody heard what was going on in the w…
the greatest prayer - Your Kingdom Come
the greatest prayer - Your Kingdom Come
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
4 Your Kingdom Come Thy kingdom come. Matthew 6:10, KJV Your kingdom come. Matthew 6:10, NRSV Hesiod was a Greek pessimist for whom the wineglass of history was half empty—and getting emptier. Around the start of the seventh century BCE his Works and Days proposed that humanity h…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 19 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 19 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 19 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 18: 21-35 Gaze on the king in this story. It appears from the context that he’s an eastern potentate ruling over a world where slavery is common and torture rife. Perhaps he’s just entered a prolonged war, or the harvest has been poor, or …
Imagining the Lectionary: Envisioning the Kingdom of God (Epiphany 4A)
Imagining the Lectionary: Envisioning the Kingdom of God (Epiphany 4A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Envisioning the Kingdom of God (Epiphany 4A) Reflection accompanying image: "Jackdaws with text “disciples need sharp all-round vision” These Jackdaws have sharp, all-round vision. Working together they have all the angles covered and never seem to…
Imagining the Lectionary: fit for purpose? (Epiphany 8A)
Imagining the Lectionary: fit for purpose? (Epiphany 8A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Fit for purpose? (Epiphany 8A) Reflection accompanying image “flamingo” "Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out." Matthew 6:33 (The Message) "But strive first for the kingdom of God and his …
Dark were the city streets
Dark were the city streets
by Avis Palmer
Nicodemus’song Dark were the city streets, The night watch on patrol Had passed the alleyway down which a figure stole. A seeker on a quest was bound, What would this night be lost or found? Responding to his knock The door was opened wide. Compelled by all he'd seen and heard he…
Scripture and the Authority of God - Authority of Scripture as Part of a Larger Whole
Scripture and the Authority of God - Authority of Scripture as Part of a Larger Whole
by SPCK - N T Wright
“Authority of Scripture” as Part of a Larger Whole ‘Authority of Scripture’ is a Shorthand for God’s Authority Exercised through Scripture We now arrive at the central claim of this book: that the phrase ‘authority of scripture’ can only make Christian sense if it is a shorthand …
Simply Jesus - Preface
Simply Jesus - Preface
by SPCK - N T Wright
Preface Jesus of Nazareth poses a question and a challenge two thousand years after his lifetime. The question is fairly simple: who exactly was he? This includes the questions, What did he think he was up to? What did he do and say, why was he killed, and did he rise from the de…
Imagining the Lectionary: palms and passion